Tài liệu Essential guide to writing part 5 doc

... little, or no, time to continue my instructional essay on "How To Begin a Story." "How To End a Story" is, of course, a different matter. . . . One way of ending a story is. And ... sometimes to the essayist, who may wish to sug- gest a judgment rather than to formulate one. The strategy is called an implicative closing. The writer stops short, allowing the re...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 00:20

... to overcome masculine resistance to toilet- ries as "sissy" (or perhaps to appeal to women, who buy most of these products for their men).3 Emotionally loaded diction is also the stock-in-trade ... fact: that part of a word's mean- ing is the purpose it is expected to fulfill, and that words may serve different purposes. To get a bit further into this matter it wi...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 23:15

... is repeated too closely. It ought to be replaced by a synonym or a pronoun: The auto industry used to produce cars that lasted, but they didn't make enough profit so planned obsolescence came into ... he proceeded to the bulletin board. BETTER: Told yes, he went to the bulletin board. Television shows which demonstrate participation in physical ex- ercise will improve your muscle...

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 14:15

... organization and tone. Or- ganization involves (1) how you analyze your topic, the parts into which you divide it, and (2) the order in which you present these parts and how you tie them together. Tone means ... entries, you may want to make an index or to group passages according to subject. A commonplace book will help your writing in several ways. It will be a storehouse of topics...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 00:20

... www.tailieuduhoc.org CHAPTER 5 Exploring for Topics Before beginning a draft, you need to explore a subject, look- ing for topics. (Subject refers to the main focus of a compo- sition; topic to specific aspects ... reading novels and stories, looking into scholarly studies of changing social attitudes. You've got a lot to write about. Finding Topics by Free Writing or Brains...

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... Arthur Eddington be- gins a chapter in his book The Philosophy of Science with this statement: I believe there are 15, 747,724,136,2 75, 002 ,57 7,6 05, 653 ,691, 181 ,55 5,468,044,71 7,914 ,52 7,116,709,366,231,4 25, 076,1 85, 631, 031,296 ... to be hit over the head. Implicit announcements may appear as rhetorical ques- tions, as in this essay about historians: What is the historian? T...

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... www.tailieuduhoc.org CHAPTER 24 Meaning To say that a word has meaning is to say that it has purpose. The purpose may be to signify is, to refer to an object or person other than the writer, to an abstract conception ... about Toronto? What can one? What has any- body ever said? It is impossible to give it anything but commen- dation. is not squalid like Birmingham, or cramped C...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 23:15

... irrationally. BETTER YET: She acted irrationally. He didn't take the advice given to him by his doctor. BETTER: He didn't take his doctor's advice. leaves us with the thought that. BETTER: leaves ... it is not too much to ask people to look into a dictionary now and again.) Don't Spell Out What Is Clearly Implied Unless there is a clear chance of confusion, you do...

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 14:15

... Barbara Most similes are brief, but they may be by breaking the vehicles into parts and applying each to the tenor. A historian, writing about the Italian patriot Garibaldi, explains that his mind was ... Overworked Metaphors and similes ought not to be sprinkled about pro- fusely, especially in expository writing. Even when they do not clash, too many are likely to cancel one anothe...

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 14:15

... hand bells of pietists, summoning all to pray for the SOLlls of the dead. Morris Bishop Images can appeal to other senses: to smell, taste, touch, even to the muscular sense of movement and ... that one looks directly into their foliage, too lush, too un- settlingly glossy, the greenery of nightmare; the fallen eucalyptus bark is too dusty, a place for snakes to breed. Joan Didion...

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